gtfierro/ontologies

A list of ontologies related to Linked Building Data

ontologies

A list of external ontologies related to the ontologies being developed within the LBD community

How to add your own

1. Fork this repository
2. Add your ontology and a description to the readme file
3. Make pull request

List of External Ontologies

• OMG: Ontology for Managing Geometry by Anna Wagner and Mathias Bonduel: linking between concepts (e.g. a building element) and their geometry description(s), between related geometry descriptions and between geometry descriptions and related properties.

• FOG: File Ontology for Geometry formats by Mathias Bonduel and Anna Wagner: extension of OMG for geometry schema specific relations to geometry descriptions (e.g. OBJ, Revit geometry, E57, DWG, etc.)

• BPO: Building Product Ontology Anna Wagner

• IFC-PROPS by Maxime Lefrançois: list of properties extracted from IFC4 psets

• IFC-PRODUCT by Pieter Pauwels: extended version of the minimal LBD PRODUCT ontology, based on IFC product definitions

• Brick Ontology by Brick Consortium: Defines HVAC, lighting, spatial and electrical concepts and relationships for the purposes of contextualizing data sources in buildings. Provides a high-level topological and compositional view of buildings and their subsystems. Primary contact is Gabe Fierro.

• HVAC ontology

• PROJECT ontology